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Today's top content isn't on the Web, it's in newsletters.

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Erin Reynolds

Founder, Flying Mollusk

Breef has been an email game-changer for me. It prevents the mental whiplash of going through a messy inbox.

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Scrolling review of emails is like nothing you have ever experienced before. My email anxiety is at an all time low.

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I use Breef to fly through my inbox and get rid of all the irritating and time-consuming detritus that collects there in about 1/3 of the time it used to take me. Then I can focus on what's actually important. It's immeasurably reduced my anxiety around the Sisyphean daily task that is email.

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I think anybody would find this useful for the speed it gives them to go through emails but if you know the simple keyboard shortcuts that already work for Gmail, it makes sorting through your emails an absolute breeze. I can't believe nobody has ever thought of this before.

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Great extension that sits right in your inbox, clears out the fluff, then helps you sort the wheat from the chaff so you can focus

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A Breef History

Andy Mitchell

Founder, @andymitchell

As a founder I run on insights that give me a competitive edge. And as I'm perpetually short on time for checking things, newsletters became my favorite way receive deep insights straight into my inbox.

But right now, the infrastructure kinda sucks. Great - and especially fresh - writers are hard to find, my inbox is forever on fire trying to keep up with emails from every aspect of my life, I rarely recall what I read, and I'm aware writers might struggle to keep going without richer feedback (or at least knowing I'm grateful and reading).

So what started as a little Chrome extension to help me handle my inbox is evolving into a tool that lifts up the knowledge flowing through the newsletter medium, and tries to support the authors behind it.

See my Roadmap to join in.

Roadmap. Breef is young.

Breef is a personal project of Andy Mitchell, and there's still fun ideas to try. You can also join in! See the Roadmap.

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Breef is free to try, and has a 30 day 100% refund guarantee.

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